Simonetta Fadda

I mainly work with video, installation, and drawing, with a strong interest in language. One of the recurring themes of my videos, usually made with non-professional video technologies, is the social landscape constructed by people in their interactions with each other and with everyday objects. I use poor or recycled materials for my installations. These include cardboard and cathode ray tubes. In my drawings, I often put the word in a dialog with the image.

My artworks are kept in private and public collections in Italy and France, including FRAC Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain de la Corse, Corti (FR); Fondation du Doute, Blois (FR); MUSA Museo della ceramica, Savona (IT); Museo di Villa Croce, Genova (IT); MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (IT); Museo di Sant’Agostino, Genova (IT). I project informal teaching situations in museums, schools, psychiatric institutions, and prisons with media workshops for children, teenagers and adults.

I hold the chair of Art Pedagogy and Didactics at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where I also teach Museum Didactics and Communication Ethics.

In 1999 I released my study on video as an artistic and political medium in the sixties and seventies Definizione zero. Origini della videoarte tra politica e comunicazione (Zero Definition: origins of video art between politics and communication), which in 2017 was republished in a new, updated edition. In 2020, I released Media and Art From painted caves to singers' holograms, research on the delicate relationships between subjectivity, experience, and media, in the light of the social repercussions generated by the linguistic rifts created by the artists. In 2013, together with Pier Luigi Capucci, I edited the Italian edition of Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood.